Lot #: 46
Price Realized: $3,120.00
($2,600 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Anna Pottery "Railroad and River Guide" Stoneware Pig Flask, Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, circa 1880, molded in the form of a pig with spout in rear, incised details to face and hooves, and anatomically-correct underside, incised on one side with the inscription, "Latest and most reliable / Railroad and River Guide / with a little good old Rye / in a hog's." Remainder of pig incised with a railroad map of the Midwestern U.S., including the following landmarks: St. Louis, Miss River, Sandoval, Grand Tower, Odin, Centralia, Carbondale, Jonesboro, Cairo, Mounds, Anna, Ohio River, Cincinnati, and Chicago. A large area of brown paint to one leg indicates it is likely restored, although the extent of this restoration is unknown. Shallow chipping to spout. An in-the-firing contact mark to the back of one leg. A small adhered piece of clay to underside. A small in-the-firing contact mark to the word, "Old." L 8".
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